Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
Interpretation
A call to action regarding the urgent need to address global warming based on scientific consensus.
In this quote, Al Gore highlights the unprecedented collaborative effort of scientists worldwide who have come together to study and understand the dire implications of global warming. He stresses that a strong consensus has emerged, indicating that without immediate and concerted action to mitigate its effects, humanity will face severe and catastrophic consequences that could fundamentally threaten our existence and the environment.
In practice
In a presentation about climate policy, one could say, 'As Al Gore pointed out, two thousand scientists warn us of the imminent dangers of global warming.'
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.
As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished but had not really been explored thoroughly enough.
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
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